https://youtu.be/ANF_CO14nDU

Mayuri and the others looked on as Pernida revealed his true form. The left arm of the Soul King. Pernida grew in size, towering over everyone.



Yumichika: This monster is the Soul King's left arm?

Ikkaku: Was the Soul King this huge?

Mayuri: I've no idea, since I've never met him. Mod Soul Girl, can you confirm?

Calavera: N-no... The Soul King was the same size as the rest of us... At least the parts of him that were still intact.

Mayuri: I see... Interesting. His Spiritual Pressure is almost the same as the one I sampled from Ukitake. If Ukitake had a contract with Soul King's right arm... it's not weird that the left arm can still move after being parted from the Soul King.

Yumichika: I think it's weird.

Calavera and Roka: At least we agree on that.

Mayuri: The fact that it has one eye on it also matches Kisuke Urahara's description. I guess someone might say that it's wrong to call that "one eye."

Pernida then shot nerves from his fingertips, forcing everyone in the area to steer clear of the ginormous hand. Mayuri on the other hand, used one of his strange inventions as an umbrella that took the hit for him.

Mayuri: The only thing I don't understand is why the Soul King's left arm would work for Yhwach. But compared to my happiness now, that's just a tiny issue.

"Happiness?"

This shocked everyone. The voice that spoke just now came from Pernida himself.

Mayuri: You understand? I didn't expect that either. I wonder what organs you use to speak. It's so intriguing.

Ikkaku: Captain Kurotsuchi! Stop grinning and run! How can you be so happy about this situation?

Mayuri: How can I be so happy, you ask? I found a never-before-seen object to observe. It keeps on growing beyond my expectations. How could I not be happy about this?



Calavera and Roka looked at each other in indifference. They weren't close to Mayuri at all, so they weren't sure if his fascination with Pernida would lead to his downfall. Despite Mayuri's insistence of facing Pernida alone, the two girls silently agree that they shouldn't leave this completely in his hands.

Pernida released more nerves out of his fingers which Mayuri dodged successfully.

Mayuri: Yes. Show me more, Soul King's left arm!

Pernida: Left... arm... Name is... wrong...

Mayuri: What? Louder, please.

Pernida: My name... is Pernida... Pernida Parnkgjas.

Mayuri: That's long. I'm the one who found you anyway, so I've got the right to name you. But if you say so yourself, I guess this time I can make an exception.

A little ways away, the group listened as Mayuri bargained with Pernida.

Ikkaku: He makes no sense.

Yumichika: Same as always.

Calavera: So are you guys going to really sit this one out?

Ikkaku: We don't have a choice.

Nemu: Master Mayuri's orders were to stay put.

Roka: I see, that's too bad. We could use the assistance.

Yumichika: Hold on, you two aren't really thinking about going out there, are you?

Calavera: I hate that I'm considering it, but we can't just let Captain Kurotsuchi do this by himself.

Nemu: That would be going against Captain's orders.

Calavera: Nemu, right? We're pretty similar so I'd like to ask you something.

Nemu: What is it?

Calavera: You care about Captain Kurotsuchi, right?

Nemu: That's right.

Calavera: Then why don't you help him fight?

Nemu: He's never required my help in a battle.

Calavera: This is a battle against a body part of the Soul King. This isn't a fight against a normal opponent. Whether he believes he needs help or not, you should help him regardless.

Roka: If you truly have a will of your own, then you should do what you really feel. If you care for someone or something deeply then don't feel afraid to act on that feeling. That's something I've learned recently.

Calavera: And besides, Captain Kurotsuchi can't punish us. We aren't members of the Court Guard Squads.

Calavera and Roka ran into the open while Mayuri was still speaking with Pernida.

Mayuri: I'll decide the spelling of your name, how's that sound.

Pernida: Not understand... what... you say... What I not... understand... is bad things... You are enemy... The bad things enemy say... are bad things... toward Quincy...

Mayuri: So what if it was an insult?

Pernida: Unforgivable!

Pernida shot his nerves through the ground and began to create an arm that mimicked his movements.

Mayuri: You can penetrate inorganic things too with your nerves. I didn't expect that. Nice.

The rocky hand attempted to crush Mayuri but the scientist stretched his arm out as his arm became a grappling hook. Mayuri pulled himself out of the way of the attack. As Mayuri scaled a building, two rocky hands attempted to crush him.

(End Song)

Mayuri managed to slip out of the attack but was now falling to the ground where many of Pernida's nerves were located. Thankfully, Mayuri had a plan for an outcome like this. Touching the back of his shoes, Mayuri began to levitate, surprising everyone, even Pernida.



Mayuri: Do you know this? Of course! This is the sky-walking technique used by you Quincies. Hirenkyaku. However, this is the name used by Soken and Uryu Ishida. The real name might be a different one. But anyway, you may as well cover the whole ground with your nerves, but it's meaningless if I don't step on them.

https://youtu.be/awK3HMDvqWg

Mayuri then shot something that wrapped around one of Pernida's fingers. Upon closer inspection, it was a mutated human head, no doubt experimented on by Mayuri.

Mayuri: Well then, as planned, I'll take a sample.

Mayuri took out a detonator and pressed the button, causing the head to explode. The explosion was strong enough to take off the finger. Mayuri then throw a liquid onto the severed finger.

Mayuri: It's preserving liquid. It might sting a little. After the fight is over, I'll build a water tank to preserve it. Until then, this is needed to maintain its freshness.

However the finger grew an eye of its own and shot a nerve into Mayuri's arm, forcing control over Mayuri.

Mayuri reacted quickly enough to remove Mayuri's nerve from his body before any meaningful damage could be done to him.

Mayuri: I rearranged the position of nerves, blood vessels, and muscles. Don't think you can take control of my body so easily, Pernida.



Mayuri took a look at his arm and wasn't satisfied.

Mayuri: It's not very well done. It's been a while since I last did an operation on myself single handed, I've lost my intuition. It's quite shameful.

Pernida: Shameful? Do you mean that you're nervous?

Mayuri: Do I look so?

Pernida: Want to become more nervous?

The finger that Mayuri severed then grew into a clone of Pernida and ran towards Mayuri. However, before Mayuri could fight back, a huge building landed on the cloned hand.

Mayuri looked up and saw a gigantic stuffed animal in Calavera Jr, standing at the same height as Pernida, seemingly being the one that threw the building on top of the hand.

Mayuri: Hmph. So the girl still decided to interfere. That aside, the ripped finger becomes another left hand? I guess it will be hard to rip you apart and take home the pieces.

Pernida then ripped off another finger from his... body?



Pernida: Become more nervous.

Pernida then looked over to Calavera.

Pernida: You fought Gerard. Potential threat.

Calavera: I'm really not!

The finger became another clone of Pernida and chased after the girl.

Calavera: You know the deal CJ! Stay away from the nerves.

Calavera piloted the Stuffed animal with precision, avoiding touching any surfaces that had Pernida's nerves attached to it.

Calavera then made it to an open space where CJ was an easy target.

As the clone ran towards Calavera, Calavera heard-

"Dance Madly, Telaraña"

All of a sudden a cyclone threw into a nearby building. The cause of the cyclone was Roka, who had activated resurreccion. She had used Dordoni's Giralda ability.

Roka: I need some time to prepare a killing blow. Can you delay him for me, Calavera?

Calavera: On it! Let's go CJ, start tossing buildings at him.

CJ ran towards the nearest building and began tearing the buildings apart before hurling them at the replica.

Each piece of debris hit their mark, pelting the arm. The arm responded by shooting a nerve at the stuffed rabbit, thankfully Calavera was able to avoid the nerve at the last minute.

Calavera: This is getting too close for comfort. Now would be a good time to be a Mod Soul that was proficient in Kido skills.

"I'm ready, Calavera!"

Roka screamed from a distance. Calavera tried to escape, however, a Heilig Pfeil came at a blinding speed, piercing CJ. This caused Calavera to lose her balance and fall. As Calavera was falling a nerve from Pernida's replica came flying at Calavera. At that moment, time slowed down for Roka. If she didn't launch her attack, Calavera would get caught in Pernida's ability, but if she does, Calavera would also become a victim of her attack.

Before Roka could make a rash decision, Nemu came to save Calavera from getting attacked.

The moment Roka saw Nemu come to Calavera's rescue, Roka didn't hesitate to use the attack she was preparing for.

Roka spread her arms as a javelin-like weapon with an arrow head made of spiritual energy was created. It glowed a teal green color.

Roka: Lanza del Relámpago.

Roka grabbed the weapon and threw it directly at the Pernida duplicate. The javelin made its mark causing a massive explosion of teal energy that shook the Riden. As the explosion cleared, there was nothing remaining of the clone.

(End Song)

Seeing this Roka, took a sigh of relief before taking a look at her hands that were burnt from the attack.

Roka: *thinking* That attack was used by Ulquiorra in Segunda Etapa. I should've known it would affect me like this. But I'm stronger now. Had I used this during the fight with Cien, I would've been in the same shape I was when I used Mugetsu.

Roka remembered vividly how her body practically fell apart from using Mugetsu. Thankfully, Both Orihime and Unohana's healing brought her back to full health.

Roka pulled herself out of her thoughts as she remembered Calavera and rushed to see if she was alright.

Meanwhile, Calavera was shocked that Nemu came to save her.

Calavera: Um, thanks.

Nemu: Thanks are not needed.

Calavera: But you said you weren't allowed to interfere. Why did you save me?

Nemu: Captain Mayuri's wishes were to face the Soul King's Left arm by himself. I wouldn't be disobeying him if I were to save you, who was simply dealing with a clone.

Calavera was surprised. In all honesty, Calavera thought Nemu was a robot. But Nemu definitely showed a lot of emotion in her actions.

Calavera: Well, thanks again. I'd be a goner if you didn't show up.

Nemu simply bowed before turning around to see the progress on Mayuri's battle.

https://youtu.be/COaNfUFApPw

During the entire battle between Pernida's clone, Mayuri was enjoying his capture of the original Pernida using his modified Bankai, Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo: Matai Fukuin Shoutai. Mayuri laughed maniacally in his victory, but it was short lived. The Arm broke out of captivity and shot at Mayuri. The Captain was able to dodge the arrow narrowly, causing Pernida to laugh in retaliation as if to mock Mayuri during his capture. Pernida also regrew the fingers he lost during the first round of combat.

Pernida: Did I imitate you well? You forgot one thing... That Pernida is a Quincy. I can kill enemies with a bow and arrows.

Mayuri: No, no, I have not forgotten. I just wasn't expecting that Soul King's left arm to shamelessly claim itself to be a Quincy!

Pernida: Shameless? How am I shameless? What do you mean that declaring myself a Quincy is shameless? I have always been a Quincy. It's really annoying that you keep talking bad about Quincy.

Mayuri was able to notice a slight change in Pernida.

Mayuri: *thinking* What was that? The way he spoke changed for a moment. His vocabulary has been increasing since the start of this fight. Is he recovering his memories as the Soul King? Or is he just evolving for some reason?

Pernida then began his assault by summoning multiple Heilig Bogens. One for each finger tip. Pernida fired the arrows at Mayuri but each arrow had a nerve attached to them. One arrow managed to graze Mayuri, prompting him to remove said arm before the nerves could take control of his body.

One arrow that missed Mayuri touched the ground where Pernida's nerves laid, causing the arrow to change its trajectory and fly back towards Mayuri.

However, once again, Nemu made the save, catching the arrow and removing her own arm to stop the arrow from taking control of her. Nemu was left falling into the ground where Pernida's nerves lay. Thankfully Mayuri was able to catch Nemu and get her to safety before she could touch the floor.

The moment the Captain and lieutenant were in the clear, Mayuri threw Nemu aside before scolding her.

Mayuri: You idiot! I didn't order you to step in! If you had fallen to the ground, you would've turned into a meatball!

Nemu: I judged that you needed a shield during the war.

Mayuri: I don't remember teaching you to join a fight based on your own judgment.

Nemu: Yes. You did not teach me that.

Mayuri: Are you saying that you learned something I did not teach you on your own?

Nemu: I don't know.

Mayuri looked over to see Calavera and Roka making their way closer to the duo.

Mayuri: The Mod Soul girl... She influenced you in that short amount of time...

Mayuri turned back to Nemu.

Mayuri: Nemu. No... Nemuri No. 7. Since Ichigo Kurosaki, (Y/N) (L/N) and the others appeared, we've been through countless fights. And I taught you many things. Do you know how difficult it would be for me to raise the next you to become the current you?

Nemu: I don't know.

Mayuri: If you don't know, then don't act based on your own judgment! You're not allowed to die of your own accord! You can only die when I order you to! If you understand, stand up!



Nemu obeyed Mayuri without hesitation.

Nemu: Yes, I understand, Lord Mayuri.

Calavera and Roka then scaled the building that Mayuri and Nemu stood on.

Mayuri: I know you two will just get in the way, so instead of screwing something up, I'll need you two to follow my instructions.

Calavera: Y-yes sir.

Nemu then took out a syringe and gave it to Mayuri.

Nemu: Forgive me for not giving this to you earlier, Lord Mayuri.

Mayuri: This is a Hojiku-zai.

Nemu: Actually, the reason I stepped in was to give you this.

Mayuri took the drug and injected the syringe into his severed arm. Mayuri instantly regrew the missing limb.

Mayuri: Did you realize from the start that I forgot to take a Hojiku-zai with me?

Mayuri passed the drug back to Nemu who then injected herself to regrow her arm.

Nemu: Yes. When this attack began, I noticed you didn't touch the drug stand where you normally take drugs before fights.

Mayuri: How observant of you. How unnerving.

Nemu: I am sorry, Lord Mayuri.

Mayuri turned to Calavera and Roka.

Mayuri: You two. If you want to help then follow the instructions that I give you. Whether you survive or not is not of my concern.

Calavera and Roka didn't hesitate a bit.

"We will."

Calavera looked at Calavera Jr.

There was a hole directly in the center of the stuffed animal from the Heilig Pfeil. Calavera clutched the toy with determination.

Calavera: Alright CJ, it's go time. We have to use our secret weapon.

To be continued.